Brilliant write up - learnt a lot.
Readit Newssiquick commented on Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings blog.wilsonl.in/search-en... · Posted by u/wilsonzlin
Bill Gates agreed with you 20 years ago :-) (this email never gets old)
https://www.osnews.com/story/19921/full-text-an-epic-bill-ga...
That was epic. The type of email we all dread to receive at work. Can’t fault Bill for his detail though, most of those kind of emails are “website slow, make fast”.
This sounds like the sales pitch for the AI Prime Ministers in Ray Naylers excellent new book, Where The Axe is Buried.
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374615369/wheretheaxeisbu...
siquick commented on The Friendship Recession: The lost art of connecting happiness.hks.harvard.edu... · Posted by u/47thpresident
I don't think it's just the attention economy. I think the Internet was bound to replace a lot of the time that people spent with friends. There's just too much interesting stuff too conveniently accessible.
I’ve got a feeling that if you looked at the average persons average internet usage it would not be full of interesting stuff.
siquick commented on Why Kagi launched "no use, no pay" getlago.substack.com/p/wh... · Posted by u/AnhTho_FR
I’ve been paying for Kagi for about 18 months and it’s pretty much the only subscription I have that it’s never crossed my mind to cancel it.
siquick commented on Literate Development: AI-Enhanced Software Engineering substack.com/home/post/p-... · Posted by u/maga
My strategy is generally to have a back and forward on the requirements with the LLM for 3/4 prompts, then get it write a summary, and then a plan. Then get it to convert the plan to a low level todo list and write it to TODO.md.
Then I get it to go through each section of the todo list and check each item off as it completes it. Generally results in completed tasks that stay on track but also means that I can stop half way through and go back to the tasks without having to prompt from the start again.
Cursor has gone to the next level with Gemini 2.5. The reasons it gives for what it’s doing are well thought through and far more in context.
Gemini seems to now advise you when you’re telling it to do something that may not make sense - first time I’ve really seen a non-Yes Man LLM. It’s more like a Yes-but-are-you-sure man.
siquick commented on I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts nickcraux.com/blog/cursor... · Posted by u/striat
> Like mine will keep forgetting about nullish coallescing (??) in JS, and even after I fix it up it will revert my change in its future changes. So of course I put that rule in and it won't happen again.
I'm surprised that this sort of pattern - you fix a bug and the AI undoes your fix - is common enough for the author to call it out. I would have assumed the model wouldn't be aggressively editing existing working code like that.
Cursor in agent mode + Sonnet 3.7 love nothing better than rewriting half your codebase to fix one small bug in a component.
I've stopped using agent unless its for a POC where I just want to test an assumption. Applying each step takes a bit more time but means less rogue behaviour and better long term results IME.
Can this be used on AWS RDS? I’ve seen a few things like this that would be great to use but without RDS support they’re unusable for us.
siquick commented on Launch HN: A0.dev (YC W25) – React Native App Generator · Posted by u/sethburster
I was just about to sign off on a 6 figure deal for someone to make a app for our pest control SaaS, and I just saw this right now and now considering trying this out if it gets the cost low significantly.
I would imagine for those who want to are agencies / developers building apps who charge a fortune doesn't make sense anymore with tools like Replit.it, Bolt, Devin and now A0.
Great work Seth and Ayo for making it easier and potentially bringing to cost of building an app down close to free as I'm assuming this is now free as it is just a sign up.
Is there any pricing on this?
Building a RN app without any features (authentication, notifications) is easy - but adding those features and then navigating the outside-app ecosystem isn’t. It’s definitely not like the web.